Venom & Vow

Book

Venom & Vow

Anna-Marie McLemore,Elliott McLemore
Published Date: 2023
ISBN: 125082222X
Page Count: 336

Two enemy kingdoms are forced to work together to break a curse in this lush YA fantasy, featuring a transgender prince and a bigender dama/assassin in the lead roles.

Keep your enemy closer.

Cade McKenna is a transgender prince who’s doubling for his brother. Valencia Palafox is a young dama attending the future queen of Eliana. Gael Palma is the infamous boy assassin Cade has vowed to protect. Patrick McKenna is the reluctant heir to a kingdom, and the prince Gael has vowed to destroy.

Cade doesn’t know that Gael and Valencia are the same person. Valencia doesn’t know that every time she thinks she’s fighting Patrick, she’s fighting Cade. And when Cade and Valencia blame each other for a devastating enchantment that takes both their families, neither of them realizes that they have far more dangerous enemies.

Cowritten by married writing team Anna-Marie and Elliott McLemore, Venom & Vow is a lush and powerful YA novel about owning your power and becoming who you really are - no matter the cost.

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance

Other Info

None

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Related

Merciless Saviors

Book

Merciless Saviors

H.E. Edgmon
Published Date: 2024
ISBN: 125085363X
Page Count: 336

That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Marian and Poppy betrayed them. Forced to use the Ouroboros knife on Zephyr, who had kidnapped their parents, Gem now has the power of the God of Air.

While for any other god things might work out okay, the Magician—whose role within the pantheon is to keep the balance—having the power of another god has thrown everything into chaos. The Goddess of Death can now reanimate corpses; the God of Art’s powers are now corrupted and twisted, giving life to his macabre creations; and, while the God of Land has always been able to communicate with creatures of the Earth, now everyone can hear their cries.

As Gem, Rory, and Enzo search for a way to restore the balance without sacrificing themselves, new horrors make them question how far they're willing to go. In the end, Gem may be forced to fully embrace their merciless nature and kill off their own humanity—if it ever really existed in the first place.

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance

Other Info

The Ouroboros Series: Book #2

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Series

Related

Godly Heathens

Book

Godly Heathens

H.E. Edgmon
Published Date: 2023-11-28
ISBN: 1250853613
Page Count: 400

Infatuation. Reincarnation. Damnation.

Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, Georgia. Known for being their peers’ queer awakening, Gem leans hard on charm to disguise the anxious mess they are beneath. The only person privy to their authentic self is another trans kid, Enzo, who’s a thousand long, painful miles away in Brooklyn.

But even Enzo doesn’t know about Gem’s dreams, haunting visions of magic and violence that have always felt too real. So how the hell does Willa Mae Hardy? The strange new girl in town acts like she and Gem are old companions, and seems to know things about them they’ve never told anyone else.

When Gem is attacked by a stranger claiming to be the Goddess of Death, Willa Mae saves their life and finally offers some answers. She and Gem are reincarnated gods who’ve known and loved each other across lifetimes. But Gem – or at least who Gem used to be - hasn’t always been the most benevolent deity. They’ve made a lot of enemies in the pantheon—enemies who, like the Goddess of Death, will keep coming.

It’s a good thing they’ve still got Enzo. But as worlds collide and the past catches up with the present, Gem will discover that everyone has something to hide.

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance

Other Info

The Ouroboros Series: Book #1

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Series

Related

Compound Fracture

Book

Compound Fracture

Andrew Joseph White
Published Date: 2024
ISBN: 1682636127
Page Count: 416

Bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White returns with a queer Appalachian thriller, that pulls no punches, for teens who see the failures in our world and are pushing for radical change.

A gut-wrenching story following a trans autistic teen who survives an attempted murder, only to be drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.


On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing Twist Creek: Photos that prove the county’s Sheriff Davies was responsible for the so-called “accident” that injured his dad, killed others, and crushed their grassroots efforts to unseat him.

The feud began a hundred years ago when Miles’s great-great-grandfather, Saint Abernathy, incited a miners’ rebellion that ended with a public execution at the hands of law enforcement. Now, Miles becomes the feud’s latest victim as the sheriff’s son and his friends sniff out the evidence, follow him through the woods, and beat him nearly to death.

In the hospital, the ghost of a soot-covered man hovers over Miles’s bedside while Sheriff Davies threatens Miles into silence. But when Miles accidentally kills one of the boys who hurt him, he learns of other folks in Twist Creek who want out from under the sheriff’s heel. To free their families from this cycle of cruelty, they’re willing to put everything on the line—is Miles?

A visceral, unabashedly political page-turner that won’t let you go until you’ve reached the end, Compound Fracture is not for the faint of heart, but it is for every reader who is ready to fight for a better world.

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Young Adult, Horror, Thriller

Other Info

None

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Related

The Build-a-Boyfriend Project

Book

The Build-a-Boyfriend Project

Mason Deaver
Published Date: 2025-08-05
ISBN: 0063394308
Page Count: 384

Bestselling and award-winning author Mason Deaver’s adult romance debut follows a journalist in a dead-end job who agrees to teach his disastrous blind date how to be a better boyfriend. Readers will delight in this sweet and steamy queer romance with trans representation!

Eli Francis is stuck. Stuck in an assistant position at the online magazine Vent when he should be a writer. Stuck with a boss who dangles a promotion but would rather he just fetch the coffee. Stuck working alongside the ex who has had no trouble moving up at work…or moving on.

When Eli’s roommates push him to date so he can get over his ex once and for all, they set him up with Peter Park. Tall, handsome, and unbelievably awkward. The date is a complete disaster, and further proof to Eli that love isn’t for him. But when his boss overhears Eli recounting the catastrophic night, he suggests teaching Peter to be a better boyfriend through a series of simulated dates so he can write an article about it.

But Eli has other ideas…Eli plays along, pretending to write the article, while secretly interviewing Peter about growing up queer in the South and coming-of-age dating wise in adulthood. Eli hopes writing this sort of piece will finally get him the promotion he deserves. And in exchange, he will teach Peter how to be a better boyfriend.

But the more time Eli spends with Peter, the closer they become, and the lines between what’s real and what’s fake begin to blur. Before long Eli is forced to face his greatest fears to become the writer he wants to be and secure the love he’s always needed. 

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Other Info

None

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Related

How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck

Book

How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck

D. N. Bryn
Published Date: 2024
ISBN: 1958051594
Page Count: 455

“I only take what’s owed me, and you, my little swan, owe me blood.”

A single kiss from a masked vampire has left Shane with an obsession and a uncover the secrets of the black-market blood trade and find his mystery vampire in the process. But one knock at the wrong door and he could have fangs at his throat instead of lips.

Andres is trying to forget his kiss with Shane Crowley by drowning himself in his work as a thief for the blood trade. When his boss seizes an overcurious Shane to drain his blood, though, Andres’s only option is to buy him for every drop he’ll ever produce. This new ownership awakens thoughts of glittering collars—thoughts Andres knows are the desires of a monster.
But Andres needs blood to live, and he’s going to have it from Shane, even if that means donning a mask once more and demanding Shane bare his neck during nightly excursions.

Soon, Shane feels pulled in all directions, between the strange desires his role as Andres’s part-time blood slave is stirring in him, his investigations into the cycle of injustice that so many fanged citizens face, and a new friend whose mouth seems strangely familiar. Little does he know, every path leads back to the same vampire…

Bare Your Neck is the third book in a series of gay paranormal romances with vampires. This book features a hidden identity, cat-and-mouse T4T relationship between a transmasc human and a he/they vampire who engage in light power dynamics, as they learn to express their desires for gilded collars and sensual obedience through healthy role play. While it can be enjoyed as a standalone, this book will contain minor spoilers for prior books in the series.

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Adult, Fantasy, Romance

Other Info

Guides for Dating Vampires Series: Book #3

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Series

Related

Stronger Still

Book

Stronger Still

D. N. Bryn
Published Date: 2023-05-25
ISBN: 1952667879
Page Count: 392

Rubem has become the voice of the auroras—of their rage, at least.

Between his threats and Tavish’s diplomacy, most of the world is finally listening. But pockets of denial linger, including the Findlays’ old trading partner, the self-governing city of Venalt. While Venalt was once a thriving metropolis of watery channels and garden balconies, now its dying aurora is the only thing holding back the sea monsters that threaten to sink the city.

As Rubem navigates Venalt’s stubborn government factions and apocalyptic prophecies, he discovers that someone in power wants the city destroyed—and they’re willing to kill its aurora protector to see their plans through. Rubem is quickly becoming all that stands in their way, but he seems always one step behind and never quite strong enough.

And like the world’s auroras, he’s growing weaker by the day…

Join Rubem and Tavish for another adventure of mystery, murder, and monsters, in a Venetian-inspired city where the Findlay family lingers on in well-buried secrets. While many These Treacherous Tides books can be read as standalones, the No-Man’s Lander series is best enjoyed chronologically .

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Adult, Fantasy, Romance

Other Info

No-Man’s Lander Series: Book #2

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Series

Related

About Bliss: Fighting for My Trans Son’s Life, Joy, and Fertility

Book

About Bliss: Fighting for My Trans Son's Life, Joy, and Fertility

Cristina Olivetti
Published Date: 2025-02-21
ISBN: 1805010395
Page Count: 280

Cristina's son was about to embark on gender-affirming care that would likely cause infertility, when she realised the need to support both her child and the adult he would become, and give him the right to have children of his own. In doing so she discovered a future - where living your life authentically doesn't mean giving up your fertility - that may be accessible to many, many more trans people in the coming years.

Through interviews with trans thought leaders, letters to her son, and missives about the struggle for reproductive rights of trans people, as well as practical advice for parents, Cristina weaves together a tapestry of voices from the trans community to tell a story that has never been told before -- of transformation, and hormones, and hope. An amazing resource for parents of children undergoing gender affirming care, and a beautiful meditation on the euphoria and challenge of transition.

 

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Nonfiction, Education

Other Info

None

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Related

The Blood of The Covenant

Book

The Blood of The Covenant

Andy J N McRae
Published Date: 2025-05-31
ISBN: 9781036916121
Page Count: 564

- DEAD - DOGS - DON'T - BITE -

Something is taking people from the highland woods.

First they go missing, then they show up dead, like clockwork every full moon.

The pack know it has to be another werewolf, and they know that it's choosing to act like an animal.

Three years have passed since Mitch was turned in the attack that killed his sister, Mel. Life has continued somewhat normally; he's starting HRT and planning on proposing to his girlfriend, Val. He should be happy, but he's still buried in a den of trauma from the attack that he doesn't know how to get out of. And unearthing this may be his only option to save his friends

Val, was Mel's best friend. Despite years of therapy, she still sees intrusive visions of her friend everywhere and wrestles with the ideas surrounding fate and control. There has to be a better way for her to protect her loved ones than the constant obsessive rituals she finds herself entangled in. She's the one who brought them all together. She can get them out of this.

Radwa was turned the same night as Mitch and Val, but being a werewolf hasn't been nearly as hard being a newly out trans teenager. If anything it's given her a strange sense of family; she's found a sister in Val, a new kind of understanding in Mitch, and something else entirely in Lolly that neither of them are brave enough to address.

Lolly was with Radwa the night of the attack. They heard the screams then ran towards them. They've always been like that, impulsive, a spark burning hot and fast. But despite their jovial exterior, Lolly has known horrors far worse than their monthly transformations, and they have more to lose than just their life.

Prompted by the arrival of Mitch's new neighbor Wren, who is suspiciously interested in their pack, the group must come head to head with the evil lurking in the woods. An evil they're all too familiar with. One that seeks to control their bodies and minds and doesn't like being told no. The problem is that this type of evil looks like everyone else.

As the alpha, everyone expects Mitch to save them, but what if his trauma runs too deep to let him? Will each of their pack survive unscathed? And if they do, what long-buried feelings will be unearthed?

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Adult, Supernatural, Mystery, Thriller

Other Info

None

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Related

And They Were Roommates

Book

And They Were Roommates

Page Powars
Published Date: 2025-05-27
ISBN: 1250347653
Page Count: 304

A hilarious, unputdownable second-chance-romance about the most unlikely, gay roommate mishap. Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Gwen & Art Are Not in Love.

Romance is the last thing on Charlie’s mind.

On his first day at Valentine Academy for Boys, Charlie’s carefully crafted plan to hide his identity as the school’s only trans student is set in motion. Only to be immediately destroyed. Charlie has been assigned the worst roommate in the world (possibly the universe): Jasper Grimes, the boy who broke Charlie’s heart the year before he transitioned.

Except, Jasper doesn’t recognize Charlie.

Who knows how long until Jasper realizes the truth? Charlie has one shot at freedom and a dorm room all to himself, but only if he helps Jasper write love letters on behalf of their fellow students first. No problem. Charlie can help Jasper with some silly letters.

Long nights spent discussing deep romantic feelings with Jasper? Surely, no unintended consequences will arise…

Language

English

Representation

Genre

Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Other Info

None

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

We don’t have information for this category yet. If you have some, let us know and we’ll add it right away!

Related